Etta Place

Etta Place (1878-1966) was a companion of outlaws Butch Cassidy and "the Sundance Kid".

Biography
Etta Place was born in Texas, and she became a schoolteacher in Wyoming. Place was romantically involved with the American outlaw Harry Longabaugh, better known as "the Sundance Kid", and she was at times also involved with his partner in crime Butch Cassidy. One day in 1899, she rode on a bicycle with Cassidy and they spent the day together. In 1902, Place was asked by Sundance to accompany him and Cassidy to Bolivia, where they were going into hiding from E.H. Harriman's specially-trained posse that was sent after them. Place would be a good cover for them, and they headed to Bolivia with her. Place accompanied the two on their voyage, and at times she would assist with their crimes. In 1906 she returned home when the two decided to return to a life of crime after a spell of straight work for a mining company, not wanting to see them die. In 1908, the two were killed, and Place's life afterwards is a mystery. In 1909 she asked for a certificate of death for Sundance, and the Pinkerton Agency kept its eye on her. In March 1922, a woman matching Place's description was killed in a domestic dispute in Argentina, but it is unlikely that she returned to South America 14 years after the deaths of her partners. Another claim says that she died of natural causes in 1966, when she would have been 88.